Thomas Adams

I looked up the range of Sweetgum and its all over Arkansas.  Can be invasive in riparian zones so maybe its on your land.  It's call Sweetgum for a reason.  

Thanks for the native plant demo.  Too often posters on this site, while well meaning, forget native plants are what hummingbirds and bees and butterflies evolved with and are naturally resistant to insect-mold damage and spikes in climate change.

Hans Quistorff wrote:Because mine dry down by the end of summer I am experimenting with wild rice and other rice verities. Looking for a rice that will sprout at 40 degrees Ferenhight Or keep growing if sprouted warmer then planted. I don't want to be transplanting if I don't have to.

Zizania palustris might grow in Washington since it in found in Idaho and east into Canada.  Maybe a little warmer in WA so that may prompt early sprout and bolting.

Bacopa is an pond edge species.  Pennywort (aka dollarweed) make great salad greens and is good for fermenting.  It will grow in shallow water but is a bit invasive.  Arrowhead, Wapato and Duck Potato (Sagittaria spp) have tubers which were a staple of Native Americans.  Got to dig for them under water though.

Chinese water chestnut is a non-native, highly invasive aquatic plant.  Thanks for keeping it native (and what is "native" is a topic for another day).

raven ranson wrote:Doctor Who that is.

Is it fish fingers and custard?  Long scarf?  Question marks?  Jelly Babies?  Who's your favourite Doctor Who?

Let's chat doctor who.

Matt then Peter but only because I became a Whovian so late.

Thanks for the instruction.  Another species in the bottomland forests of the Texas Gulf Coast is called Red Buckeye - Aesculus pavia.  They seed out in November.  I'll giving them a try.

Great idea but lost in this is the avocation of using Russian Olive as a fence.  It is a non-native, heavy invader of wetlands to the point where it out competes all tree species.  I see this missing in a lot permaculture ideas -  a lack of understanding natural balance with native plant communities.